Abstract: A control unit is a deceleration support device configured to execute an automatic deceleration control that automatically decelerates an own vehicle until an index value acquired by dividing an inter-vehicle distance between a preceding vehicle and the own vehicle by a relative speed of the own vehicle with respect to the preceding vehicle becomes equal to or greater than an end standard value, when the index value is equal to or less than a start standard value, and when the inter-vehicle distance is equal to or less than a control start distance standard value, in a situation in which a preset permission condition is established. When the traveling mode is an eco mode that reduces energy required for travel, the control unit sets the control start distance standard value to a value for the eco mode that is larger than a standard value for a normal mode.

Abstract: An information management system includes: a plurality of CO2 recovery devices configured to recover CO2; a CO2 collection station configured to collect CO2 recovered by the plurality of CO2 recovery devices; a CO2 using facility configured to use CO2 collected at the CO2 collection station; and an information management device including a communication unit configured to transmit linked information in which intended use information indicating intended use of CO2 in the CO2 using facility and an amount of use for the intended use is linked with identification information of a user of each of the plurality of CO2 recovery devices to an information communication terminal used by the user.

Abstract: A vehicle system includes an auxiliary vehicle that includes an auxiliary sensor and an auxiliary actuator, and a vehicle that communicates with the auxiliary vehicle. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle sensor that acquires information of an external environment of the vehicle, an in-vehicle actuator used in traveling of the vehicle, a vehicle control device that controls driving of the in-vehicle actuator using an input from the in-vehicle sensor, and a communicator that communicates with the auxiliary vehicle. The vehicle control device implement, upon detecting an abnormality in the in-vehicle sensor, one of the first switching control that controls the driving of the in-vehicle actuator based on an input from the auxiliary sensor, and a second switching control that causes the vehicle to travel using the auxiliary actuator.

Abstract: The window frame member has a horizontal bar shape, disposed between the upper window panel and the lower window panel and supports a lower end of the upper window panel and an upper end of the lower window panel. The window frame member has opposite longitudinal ends fixed to a B pillar and a C pillar, vertical pillars of the vehicle cabin, respectively. The seat cross member also has opposite longitudinal ends fixed to the B pillar and the C pillar. The window frame member and the seat cross member overlap each other at least partially in a portion along a vehicle height, and extend with a horizontal gap disposed therebetween over their entire lengths. The horizontal gap is less than a horizontal width of each of the window frame member and the seat cross member.

Abstract: A production method of a Sm—Fe—N-based rare earth magnet, enabling to stably impart sufficient anisotropy, is provided. The present disclosure provides a production method of a rare earth magnet, including preparing a raw material powder containing a magnetic powder (SmFeN powder 10) having a magnetic phase which contains Sm, Fe and N and at least partially has a crystal structure of at least either Th2Zn17 type or Th2Ni17 type, and pressure-sintering the raw material powder. In this production method, magnetic orientation is imparted to the raw material powder by applying a magnetic field before the pressure sintering, and the application of magnetic field is continued to maintain the magnetic orientation at least until the middle of the pressure sintering.

Abstract: A driving assistance apparatus performs a deployment control including at least a control to deploy an air-bag of a vehicle when an collision indicating value satisfies a predetermined collision condition, and performs a brake-and-drive control to make a driving force of the vehicle smaller than a required driving force of a driver of the vehicle or to apply a brake force to the vehicle when the collision indicating value does not satisfy the collision condition and/but satisfies a predetermined low impact collision condition that is to be satisfied when a low impact collision having a degree of collision lower than the collision has occurred. In addition, the driving assistance apparatus changes the low impact collision condition in such a manner that the low impact collision condition becomes satisfied more easily as an elapsed time of a state where an anomalous state condition is satisfied becomes longer. The anomalous state condition is a condition to be satisfied when the driver is not driving normally.

Abstract: In an axial gap motor, a rotor includes a plurality of rotor cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a rotor base, and a stator includes a plurality of stator cores fixed in a circumferential direction of a stator base, and coils wound around the stator cores. End faces of each of the rotor cores and end faces of the corresponding stator core are opposed to each other while being exposed to each other.

Abstract: A vehicle control device has a processor configured to set a target torque as a target for driver torque at which generation of anti-torque on a steering wheel is to be initiated, based on a reference torque as a reference for driver torque at which generation of anti-torque is to be initiated against the driver torque produced by operation of the steering wheel by a driver, and a current correction value for the reference torque, to count a number of deviations from a lane marking line of a lane in which the vehicle is traveling while the driver torque exceeds the target torque, and to calculate a new correction value for the reference torque based on a correction coefficient that is set based on the number of deviations, wherein the next target torque is set based on the reference torque and the new correction value for the reference torque.

Abstract: According to the method of the present disclosure, first, a plurality of data sets is generated from a travel log data group. Each of the plurality of data sets includes one or a plurality of travel log data. Next, map data for evaluation is generated from each of the plurality of data sets. Then, abnormal map data included in a plurality of map data for evaluation generated from the plurality of data sets is specified by comparing the plurality of map data for evaluation with each other. Then, abnormal travel log data is specified by comparing a data set used to generate the abnormal map data with a data set used to generate map data for evaluation other than the abnormal map data. And finally, final map data is generated using a data set that does not include the abnormal travel log data.

Abstract: A water electrolysis cell includes an anode disposed on one side across a solid polymer electrolyte membrane and a cathode disposed on another side. The anode is configured of an anode catalyst layer, an anode gas diffusion layer, and an anode separator, laminated in that order from a side of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane, a channel is provided in the anode separator, and the channel extends in a wave shape.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for preventing headwind debris from collecting on travel direction-facing housing surfaces of a vehicle by creating protective “air cushions” in front of the travel direction-facing housing surfaces. These air cushions may divert headwind air away from the travel direction-facing housing surfaces, ensuring that headwind debris does not collect on them. Examples may create these protective air cushions by propelling high pressure air through perforated surfaces in a contrary direction to headwind.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for communicating a blending parameter via tactile feedback at a driver's seat of a vehicle (examples of tactile feedback may comprise vibrations and temperature/heat applied through the driver's seat). The blending parameter may represent the ratio between the driver's level of authority and an autonomous driving system's level of authority in performing a driving task (e.g., lateral steering). By communicating changes to a blending parameter over time, examples can help a driver form a mental picture of how the vehicle/autonomous driving system is operating. This feedback/understanding may by advantageous for various purposes such as driver coaching and helping drivers become more comfortable with autonomous driving systems.

Abstract: A driver assist system configured to assist a driver properly to operate a vehicle, even if positional information of the vehicle and information obtained from an external source have errors, and collection of the information is delayed. A controller comprises: a position detector that detects a position of the vehicle; an obstacle detector that detects a position of an obstacle; a distance detector that determines that the vehicle overtakes the obstacle; and an information provider that executes a first notification of existence of the obstacle until the distance detector determines that the vehicle overtakes the obstacle, and a second notification of the existence of the obstacle within an extra distance or for an extra period of time.

Abstract: A server receives requests for power-on of electrical appliances provided in houses in an electricity distribution town block where an electricity distribution transformer is shared and arbitrates power-on timings of the electrical appliances provided in the houses to suppress simultaneous occurrence of an inrush current.

Abstract: A moving body support system supports a moving body that recognizes a marker arranged in a predetermined area. The moving body support system estimates brightness at a position of the marker in the predetermined area without using an image captured by a camera mounted on the moving body. The moving body support system calculates a luminance correction value of an image including the marker according to the brightness at the position of the marker. The moving body support system acquires a first image including a target marker around the moving body by using the camera. The moving body support system generates a second image by correcting luminance of the first image by using the luminance correction value for the target marker. Then, the moving body support system recognizes the target marker based on the second image.

Abstract: A plurality of control devices include a master control device and a slave control device. The master control device transmits, when software stored in a storage area different from the start storage area is updated in the slave control device, to the slave control device, a switching instruction for setting the storage area that stores the updated software as the start storage area. The slave control device implements, when receiving the switching instruction, setting of the start storage area at a time of a next start, and requests, at every start, the master control device to execute consistency determination processing for determining whether pieces of identification information of the software stored in the start storage area are consistent between the control devices. The master control device executes, when receiving the request from the slave control device, execute the consistency determination processing.

Abstract: An inspection device includes a processor configured to calculate a first identification index indicating likelihood of each possible state of an object to be inspected regarding a predetermined inspection item by inputting a color image representing the object into a first classifier, the color image being generated by a camera, calculate a second identification index indicating likelihood of each possible state of the object regarding the predetermined inspection item by inputting a depth image representing, for each pixel, the distance to a part of the object represented in the pixel into a second classifier, the depth image being generated by a 3-D camera, and determine the state of the object regarding the inspection item, based on the result of integration of the first identification index and the second identification index.

Abstract: A terminal apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to flip text included in an illustration drawn by a first user on a virtual screen in virtual space to be legible as seen from a virtual camera.

Abstract: Provided is a driving assistance device (1) including: a traffic light recognition device configured to recognize a lighting mode of a traffic light existing in front of an own vehicle; and a control device configured to determine a predetermined position in a periphery of the traffic light as a target position, execute deceleration control of decelerating the own vehicle until the own vehicle reaches the target position, calculate a predicted speed being a speed of the own vehicle at a time point at which the own vehicle reaches the target position in a case in which the own vehicle is decelerated from a current time point in a predetermined deceleration mode, execute the deceleration control in a first situation in which the predicted speed is equal to or lower than a threshold value determined based on the lighting mode of the traffic light, and to avoid executing the deceleration control in a second situation in which the predicted speed is higher than the threshold value.

Abstract: A rotor core includes a shaft hole, into which a shaft is inserted, and keys, which are protrusions corresponding to keyways of the shaft. A radial distance, which is the distance from the center of the shaft hole to an inner wall varies depending on the position in the circumferential direction of the shaft hole. The shaft hole includes key regions and increased diameter regions, in each of which the radial distance is longer than the radius of the shaft. Keys are respectively arranged in the key region. The shaft hole also includes contact regions, in which the shaft and the inner wall come into contact with each other when the shaft is inserted into the shaft hole. The contact regions are each located between the key regions or between the increased diameter regions. The contact regions are arranged at equal intervals in the circumferential direction.